Alright. I've eaten, rested a bit, and read some stuff on CanLII. Let's do this.
Shakerag: Has your role screwed everyone over yet? If not, when will it?
Varee: Do you consider your efforts to fake cluelessness in my BYOR to have been pro-town? Hypothetically, how would you react if you discovered that someone new to the forum was doing similar things in this BYOR?
Tiruin: By rolecop, you mean alignment cop, right? Because the latter's the one that learns alignments. The former learns roles.
Is your miller power one of those dependent on the number of players? What did Webadict say about you being a miller? Please tell us everything you're comfortable telling us about your milleriness.
Also, Cheetar, what is this silliness about claiming after instead of before?
4maskwolf: Out of all of Cheeetar's lynch push, this is what you latch on to? The bit where he shows cluelessness about how the game works? Please explain how this specific part of Cheeetar's argument indicates scumhood.
Jack A T Mario is Busing Bowser. How does Princess Peach, who is Tiruin, react? As a Toad, how do you react?
flabort: I'll deal with this later. I don't really feel like digging through Google Drive right now, sorry.
MILLER STUFF AHEADAt some time, I feel like I should dig through the subforum, find all the miller debates, and write up an extended review of the debates to point to whenever a miller debate starts.
If Tiruin is really a miller, I will eat Webadict's birthday hat.
Cheeetar: Is a miller claim really that huge a scumtell to you, or is there something else that leaves/left you so absolutely convinced of Tiruin's scumhood?
Jack A T, do you agree with my proposal [to lynch Tiruin for claiming miller]?
No. Your plan is a lazy policy lynch that isn't even based on good policy. I do not support lazy policy lynches. I do not support discouraging millers from doing what they can to minimize wasted inspects.
Do note: I'd prefer a much longer day than just us lynching Tiruin right now, but I do see it as our current best plan.
If we can't lynch a scum, the second best option is to lynch somebody who could be troublesome to town- third party roles or perhaps a miller.
I haven't quite seen anybody openly scummy yet, but I look with great suspicion on the miller claim- worst case scenario a miller's gone.
Cheeetar (continued): You seem oddly uncertain about the Tiruin lynch for someone who is so convinced that Tiruin is lying that you would "eat Webadict's birthday hat" if she isn't. Please explain.
Cheeetar: Even with some sort of way for millers to know when they've been acted on, why should they create strategies that depend on them being online earlier in a new day than theoretical investigators? What makes that better than just being transparent about the misinspection issue and making sure that the small chance of a wasted inspection becomes a 0% chance?
The chances of being investigated as a miller in a 17 person game are fairly slim- I feel the risk of a mislynch due to it is quite small, and even then you may claim after being investigated in the night (possibly prior to the investigator outing themselves as such, and thus negating the need for the investigator to make themselves a scum target.) Specifically dissuading the investigator from trying to investigate you is suspicious.
Please clarify: is the "risk of a mislynch" you mention the risk of being investigated and then mislynched, or the risk of being mislynched once one has been investigated? That is, is the risk small due to the low chance of being investigated, or due to there being a low chance of being lynched once investigated?
If the former, why shouldn't a miller try to eliminate a rather small but very easily eliminated chance of being mislynched, or at the very least a rather small but very easily eliminated chance of an investigation being wasted? Is it not more helpful to the town for a theoretical miller to both minimize the chance of a mislynch and maximize the chance of the cop investigating actual scum?
It's not a 'strategy'- I'm saying even in the eventuality of the miller being investigated (quite low should they act like town and scumhunt), it is not a given that they will then be lynched. If we are to say that a miller claiming is towny, wouldn't every scumteam have a scum claim miller in every game? I don't believe a day 1 claim of miller is helpful to the town, no.
It is true that it is not a given that they will be lynched. It is merely a near certainty, as opposed to an absolute certainty. Nobody would take the "I'm a miller and I decided not to tell you until my neck was on the chopping block oh and the cop wasted an inspect!" defense seriously.
While there is a school of thought on millers in which D1 miller claims are seen as strong town tells on this forum (based on meta: scum almost never claims miller D1, while millers almost always claim miller D1), it is not the dominant one. I, and most other players, view D1 miller claims as generally null tells: claiming miller as a miller minimizes the chance of a wasted inspect and the chance of a mislynch based on that inspect, making it the optimal town play, and optimal town play is generally good scum play.
Is there a reason, beyond some stuff about odds that doesn't make up for the fact that the reduction of low odds of significant harm to town in a harmless way is of value, for your belief that the benefits I noted do not make D1 miller claims from millers pro-town?
...however true it may be, it [claiming miller] seems to me something that a townie would not do.
And yet townies do it. You already saw Toaster noting his views and that it was his standard practice. Is there a reason this assumption continues even after it has been shown that townies do it?
PPE:
Alright. Given the resolution of my suspicions, I'll unvote Tiruin.
Cheetar: Fascinating. Do you still think Tiruin is lying about being a miller, or has that suspicion been negated? Is this unvote primarily based on the negative reaction to your case?